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The Science of Discworld

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.

Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful... Read more

The Globe

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat?
 
When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants entirely. Now, they have noticed humanity. And humanity... Read more

Darwin's Watch

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space... Read more

Judgment Day

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction,... Read more

The Science Of Discworld II

By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again... Read more

Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who... Read more

The Science of Discworld IV

By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett’s brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction,... Read more

The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition

By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 'fantasy' universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld... Read more